Where to go? Workers' reasons to quit and intra- vs. interindustry job mobility

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2057-2067

  Delfgaauw, Josse ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; WAGE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548652302     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600707092     Document Type: Article

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